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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Tough Times

E has still not found another job despite all his hard work, years of experience and excellence in his field and all his interviews. We may have to move to get work and to move out of the NY/NJ/PA area to find a job is ridiculous. People move TO NJ for jobs. It is tough all around, food is more expensive every time I go shopping, people cannot afford to get health insurance, unemployment is at a all time high. It is just a matter of time before we lose everything. It is not will we? it is when?

Let's do something about it, even though it is just a little thing, Blog the Recession for August! It is simple to do: "If you read blogs, then for the month of August, make the "pledge" to click through from your feed reader. Just click through to the blog (not on ads unless you are so led) and if you're feeling generous, click around to their older posts."What do you think? Page views don't help me here, (even though I am a stat whore) but they do on my other blogs. Plus you may just join in on a great parenting conversation or stumble on a sweet baby gear deal.Perhaps you might even link up to them. So c'mon and join me and some other cool bloggers and click through on your feed readers or blogrolls.

22 comments:

I'm clicking through from Kristen's. :)I'm so sorry to hear about the employment issues. We have some pretty major stuff happening with our financial situation as well. It sucks. I hope your situation turns around very soon.

I think that even if you don't want/need the page views, the comments that people leave and the nice people that you might meet are always nice! Like your blog! I would have never found it if it weren't for Kristen's post.

Jobs are insane right now. My husband kept getting told he was overqualified, or under qualified. Seems 17 years of military experience scares civilian employers. So here we are, going back to active duty. At least there's job security.

For what it's worth, I didn't think you had to be a mom -- or even female -- to want to help out a fellow blogger. So I pinned on the BTR badge for the duration even if it means hearing that brain rotting Sesame Street song "One of These Things..."

I'm self employed, but I feel you. When the work doesn't come in in a timely fashion, or the clients I do have are slow to pay it makes for some very stressful weeks. Right now I've started an online marketing event which I hope will help with cashflow.

Hope your family gets some good financial news soon.

I'm new to this blogging -- less than a year -- but I hope folks will check out my blog I have attached to my business website blog.owensburton.com